Malaria vaccine is safe, allow your children to be vaccinated – Health Minister » February 22nd, 2023

The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, has advised parents to allow their children below two years, to be vaccinated against malaria to stimulate the nations efforts to eradicate malaria in the country by 2030.   He emphas...Read More

Afenyo-Markin wants NHIS to cover testing and treatment of Hepatitis B » February 21st, 2023

The Member of Parliament for Effutu constituency, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, is advocating for the National Health Insurance Scheme to cover the testing and treatment of the deadly Hepatitis B.  ...Read More

New mosquito brings year-round malaria to Kenya » February 21st, 2023

Kenyan researchers have detected a mosquito native to South Asia that is resistant to insecticides used in Africa.   Experts from the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) identified the mosquito, Anopheles stephensi, during a...Read More

Put congenital heart surgery on NHIS – Cardiac surgeon to government » February 20th, 2023

A senior lecturer at the Department of Surgery, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology School of Medicine and Dentistry, Dr Isaac Okyere wants the government to consider putting congenital heart surgical treatment under the National Health Insurance Scheme.  ...Read More